We’ve seen countless examples of the average person joining a group that ends up being more trouble than it is worth. In this episode, Janelle and Vicky talk cults, government, and drug counseling.
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Research links here!:
ProQuest – “Bounded choice: The fusion of personal freedom and self-renunciation in two transcendent groups”
Cosmonaut – “Cults of our Hegemony: An Inventory of Left-Wing Cults”
The Core – “What side are you on?”
Portland State University – “How women are made: a look at the issues of the women’s liberation movement”
Marxists.org – “Marlene Dixon”
Lefty Hooligan – “Rob Miller, Tau Cross and the spiritualism of fools: ‘What’s Left?’ August 2019”
Encyclopedia of Anti-Revisionism On-Line – “On the DWP’s Demise: What Leninism Is and Is Not”
Los Angeles Magazine – “The Story of This Drug Rehab-Turned-Violent Cult Is Wild, Wild Country-Caliber Bizarre”
Variety – “Synanon Documentary Set at HBO From Director Rory Kennedy (EXCLUSIVE)”
Gizmodo – “Synanon’s Sober Utopia: How a Drug Rehab Program Became a Violent Cult”
Cabinet Magazine – “Shaved Heads, Snipped Tubes, Imperial Marines, and Dope Fiends”
The New York Times – “Charles Dederich, 83, Synanon Founder, Dies”
Paul Morantz – “The History of Synanon and Charle Dederich”
SFGate – “Charles Dederich, Synanon Founder”
“1966 Special Report: ‘Synanon'” (Youtube)
Gizmodo – “The Man Who Fought the Synanon Cult and Won”
